Please see the below announcement that may be of interest to the HQI community. ================================================== Hi everyone, tl;dr MIT's interdisciplinary Quantum Information Science and Engineering (iQuISE) society will be hosting an interest meeting and social to kick off the academic year. When: 6PM ET on Sept 20 (Wednesday) Where: Allen Room (MIT Building 36, Room 462) Why: Learn about a great community while eating free pizza! Who: Open to all Harvard/MIT Affiliates (undergrad, MS, MBA, PhD, postdoc, etc.) Please fill out this interest form if you'd like to join us: https://tinyurl.com/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A… -- the long: MIT iQuISE is MIT's longest-standing quantum computing and engineering community open to all MIT/Harvard affiliates (PhD, MS, undergrad, MBA, etc.). Our initiatives include an invited talk series<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.iquise.m… by distinguished pioneers in our field, MIT's quantum computing hackathon (MIT iQuHACK<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__iquhack.mit…)IxEPKRYwHKORhVKfRA&e=>), MIT's quantum science and engineering conference (QuARC<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__cqe.mit.edu_q…)doIZi-bidpdAwNh3BU&e=>), local and global outreach, and other events that bring together the community in quantum engineering and science at MIT. Join our community to shape these initiatives and spearhead your own, while building a powerful professional network in both academia and industry. See you there! Ariel Ariel Barr PhD candidate, Efthimios Kaxiras group @ Harvard Treasurer @ MIT iQuISE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.iquise.m… [A white and black logo with green text Description automatically generated]